Pi-hole Core v5.2.3, Web v5.3 and FTL v5.4 released!

A new year, a new release!

Before running pihole -up to update, make sure you’ve read over the release notes below to ensure there’s nothing that would stop you from upgrading. Pi-hole docker containers will be updated in due course… (before anyone asks “Where’s the Docker update??”)

Update: Docker containers now tagged at :v5.4

Core:

• Only use ‘Location:’ header for FTL update check on Github API #3987 (@dschaper)
• Allow @ in adlist URLs #3912 (@mdujava)
• Change wording in whiptail for adlist selection #3943 (@yubiuser)
• Further failsafe check for available APT packages #3537 (@MichaIng)
• Remove deprecated malwaredomains list #3937 (@yubiuser)
• Fix connection mechanism between Chronometer and FTL #3954 (@DL6ER )
• Fix release check for centos stream #3958 (@bcambl)

Web:

• Implement dark theme on the modal dialogs #1674 (@kevlg)
• Add more query type names to title of Query Log instead of “type ” #1671 (@Daxtorim)
• Fix sorting by reply in Query Log #1669 (@Daxtorim)
• Change radius to 10px for a more modern look. #1691 (@Gontier-Julien)
• Remove unnecessary backround-color for the interface. #1692 (@Gontier-Julien)
• Fix gray space on the left side for cleaner look. #1693 (@Gontier-Julien)
• Fix charts overflowing. #1694 (@Gontier-Julien)

FTL:

New

• Implement support for displaying exact type instead of just OTHER #1013
  
• Add new query types SVCB and HTTPS #1010 (@DL6ER)
  These queries where shown as OTHER before. Now they can be distinguished on the query log pages and are included as separate items in the daily statistics.
• Detect and handle interface changes of clients with the same IP #999 (@DL6ER)
• Update SQLite3 to 3.34.0 #1006 (@DL6ER)
  We also expose a full-fledged SQLite3 shell interface through pihole-FTL sqlite3

Fixes

• Fix for errno not being set by posix_fallocate() #1023 (@DL6ER)
• Check for validity of iface pointer before dereferencing it #1018 (@DL6ER)
• Don’t show retried queries when filtering for blocked queries #1022 (@Daxtorim)
• Do not record NXDOMAIN from DNS cache as “regex blocked” #1014 (@DL6ER)
• Added missing NS query type to getQueryTypes() #1007 (@Daxtorim)
• Do not return regex idx if privacy level > 0 #1016 (@DL6ER)